What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. AWS Solutions Architect position at Mavensoft Technologies, LLC?
Job Details
Role: Sr. AWS Solutions Architect Duration: 6 Months (Contract) W2 Location: Portland, OR (Hybrid)
Key Skills: Architecture and Solution Assessment, AWS architecture and services (IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, SageMaker), Snowflake, DevOps, MLOps, Data Ops, AWS Glue, Redshift, IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation)
Top 3 Must-Haves (Hard and/or Soft Skills):
1. AWS architecture along with AWS Services hands-on knowledge
2. Architecture and Solution Assessment
3. Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
Top 3 Nice-To-Haves (Hard and/or Soft Skills)
1.Working experience of Cloud architectural patterns and frameworks
2. In-depth knowledge of AWS services, especially IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, and Sage Maker
3. DevOps/ML Ops Automation (Terraform, CloudFormation)
Job Summary:
- Seeking a skilled Senior Solutions architect with expertise in designing and implementing cloud-based data solutions.
- The ideal candidate will have a strong background in cloud infrastructure, data warehousing, machine learning operations, and automation practices.
Key Responsibilities/Skills:
- Understand current business processes and capability requirements from architecture, integrations, and process standpoint.
- Perform market analysis and short list vendors for evaluation & lead demos with vendor, bringing along business.
- Build evaluation criteria to measure vendors and put together a capability, architecture, and cost analysis for the business.
- Design and implement cloud-based (AWS - preferred) data solutions, with an emphasis on performance optimization, scalability, and security.
- Implement cloud data governance, data security, and compliance regulations.
- Apply serverless automation frameworks, Dev/ML/Data Ops tools and CI/CD pipelines.
- Bring expertise in scripting and automation tools such as Python, Bash, Terraform, or CloudFormation for cloud-based integrations.
- Evaluate and select appropriate technologies and tools.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, including business stakeholders, data engineers, DevOps, and cloud security teams, to ensure successful migration and deployment.
- Provide technical guidance to development team and application teams to migrate data from legacy systems (e.g., DataStage) to cloud-native solutions (e.g., AWS Glue, Redshift, Snowflake)
- Define and document architectural guidelines, standards, and best practices.
- Added advantage with ETL/ELT processes, particularly in transitioning from legacy tools like DataStage to cloud-native solutions.
- Deep understanding of various data modeling techniques (e.g., dimensional modeling, Data Vault, Data Mesh) and the ability to choose the appropriate model for different business needs.
- Experience with conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling.
- Experience with metadata management tools and processes, including data dictionaries, business glossaries, and data lineage tracking.
- Integrate AI/ML capabilities into business applications to drive innovation and automation.
- Hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, SageMaker,etc..)
- Excellent communication, problem-solving and team collaboration skills.
- Ensure system performance, cost efficiency, and compliance with security best practices.
- Work with business partners on the grant management team to build capability matrix for evaluation for Grant Management Software Vendors.
- Further, will work with business partners to evaluate the current state and future state of Data Stage Jobs to help build a BSG package to present for funding.
- Additionally, will lead the Technical Debt work to build framing for Dev Ops, ML Ops, Tagging, Reliability, Snowflake costs, etc in partnership with AWS Admins.
- Grant Management Vendor Evaluation. Scaling framework for Tech Debt work
- This role will be interacting different roles like BA, Sr Data Engineers, API Engineers, AWS Admins on the team.
- This role will be supporting the Grant Management Technology Solutioning work, Technical Debt work as well to support the preparation of scope for the Data Stage Migration work which is on the roadmap for this year.
- Work closely with the teams on Snowflake and AWS cloud administration and support.